The mass production of memory : travel and personal archiving in the age of the Kodak

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Title
"The mass production of memory : travel and personal archiving in the age of the Kodak"
Statement of Responsibility
Tammy S. Gordon
Publisher
  • University of Massachusetts Press
Publication Year
  • c2020
Book size
24 cm
Series Name / No
  • : hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "In 1888, the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company offered the first portable camera that allowed users to conveniently take photos, using leisure travel as a primary marketing feature to promote it. The combination of portability, ease of use, and mass advertising fed into a national trend of popular photography that drew on Americans' increasing mobility and leisure time. The Kodak Company and the first generation of tourist photographers established new standards for personal archiving that amplified the individual's role in authoring the national narrative. But not everyone had equal access to travel and tourism, and many members of the African American, Native American, and gay and lesbian communities used the camera to counter the racism, homophobia, and classism that shaped public spaces. In this groundbreaking history, Tammy S. Gordon tells the story of the camera's emerging centrality in leisure travel across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its role in "the mass productio

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